Computerized Adaptive Testing in the Bundeswehr

Abstract

Within the psychological service of the Bundeswehr about 250.000 selection and placement procedures were conducted per year (draftees, volunteers). In a technical concept of quality control in personnel psychology the minimum standards were defined for the introduction, the utilization, and the control of instruments and procedures. One aspect of this technical concept is to optimize the system and to adapt it to future conditions by implementing adaptive tests, based on the item response theory (IRT), into the testing procedure. This aim has been pursued since many years under the cooperation of Prof. Dr. Lutz F. Hornke, University of Aachen (Germany), Department of Psychology. Five subtests out of a test battery of psychological aptitude measurements were chosen for further adaptive testing, but only the first three will be of interest here: - abstract logical reasoning (matrix type items) - verbal reasoning (analogies) - numerical reasoning (arithmetic items) - verbal memory and serial learning (in progress)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1999
Accession Number
ADA362089

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  • Ernst G. Storm

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  • Abstracts
  • Algorithms
  • Arithmetic
  • Calibration
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  • Military Forces (Foreign)
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  • Psychology
  • Quality Control
  • Reasoning
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  • Test And Evaluation
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